Pilgrim March
Thoughts on Life as a Spiritual Journey
Wii Tennis Tournament
Mary and I are hosting a Wii Tennis tournament/party this Friday. We’ve still got a few spaces available that we’d love to have filled. We’re going to use our LCD projector to project the screen onto our living room wall. We’re hoping to get our little Wii guys as close to life-size as possible! If [...]
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Give to Everyone Who Asks of You
There are a lot of poor people in Cincinnati. I was there for a wedding earlier this year. I was staying at a hotel in the city, so I wanted to be prepared in case I ran into any beggars. I went to a drug store where they sold gift cards to fast food restaurants [...]
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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Don Miller learns to live an exciting story. That should be the subtitle to this book. In the process of trying to turn his Blue Like Jazz book into a movie, he comes face-to-face with the reality that he is living a boring life. He has to sit down with the movie producers and turn [...]
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Prodigal God
In this book Tim Keller offers his expanded interpretation of the parable most often referred to as the Prodigal Son. He says that the two sons represent two types of people into which all of humanity divides. Each of us falls into one of two categories. The first is represented by the younger brother who [...]
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Abraham and Isaac
When I read that God said to Abraham, offer up your son as a sacrifice, I wonder if this story should have been left out of the Bible. What does it have to do with a loving God and his relationship with his people? Isn’t this just at best a bizarre case of emotional manipulation [...]
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Personal Reflections on Power and Privilege
The following is an excerpt from a recent ordination paper that I wrote which sought to answer the following question: Explain the effect of power and privilege in areas of race, economic class and gender upon your life and ministry. If racism is a “system of advantage based on race,” (Tatum, Beverly Why are all the [...]
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The Nones
Andrew Sullivan, a prolific blogger for the Atlantic, recently posted a story on the growing religious demographic called the Coming Age of the Nones. I’ve blogged about this before (here and here). He has some great insights. He sets the stage with these statistics: In 1990, 8 percent of Americans reported that they had no [...]
In over my head
Have you heard this song by The Fray called Over My Head? It’s a catchy tune. I’m not really sure what the song is about, but the chorus speaks to me. Every time I hear it on the radio it reminds me of my own inner turmoil. Over and over throughout the song, the lead [...]
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Love Jesus but not the Church?
It’s pretty en vogue these days to say you love Jesus but you don’t think too much of the church. It’s understandable. When Jesus walked the earth, he did some pretty amazing things. He also taught with a wisdom that was unique to what anyone had ever heard. Both in word and in deed, Jesus [...]
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Truthfully Broken People
It’s amazing how broken our world is. Since I’ve started planting New City Covenant, I’ve become more aware of both my own brokenness and that of others. I sit down with anywhere from 2 to 10 people each week and share my story and the vision of our church with them. I also listen [...]
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